Terrifying moment gunman storms embassy and opens fire with assault rifle killing one after ‘wife vanished during visit’

SHOCKING video shows the moment a man stormed into an embassy and shot three people with an assault rifle in Iran. Tehran authorities claimed the troubled gunman believed his wife was held inside, but furious leaders in Azerbaijan said it was a terror attack encouraged by Iran. Not known, clear with picture deskHe crashed his car into another before entering the building[/caption] APThe man armed with a Kalashnikov-style rifle[/caption] Leaked video footage from outside of the embassy shows two men parking a car and entering the building in Tehran, before a speeding car approaches and crashes into the back of their car. A man then leaps out and charges towards the door with a long weapon. CCTV from inside the embassy then shows two men trying to bar the door as the gunman rushes in. He bursts through an opens fire with a salvo of bullets, apparently hitting one man in the torso who collapsed in a nearby corridor. Seconds later, another embassy employee runs towards him to disarm him. The embassy’s head of security, Orkhan Rizvan, died and two other men were injured. Tehran police chief General Hossein Rahimi said the attacker, who was arrested, is an Iranian man married to an Azerbaijani woman. He is said to have believed his wife was being held at the embassy for at least nine months. Tasnim news agency said the assailant had filed a missing persons report for his wife in April last year. But legal documents reportedly showed she had in fact moved back to Azerbaijan. And a young woman identified as the man’s daughter told Reuters that her mother was safe in Azerbaijan. She said: “My mother is not in the embassy and I told him that but he did not accept that.” Azerbaijan’s foreign ministry issued a furious statement, claiming Iran was responsible for the tragedy. Ministry’s spokesman Ayxan Hacizada told media in his country that recent anti-Azerbaijani campaigns in Iran had “encouraged the attack”. Hacizada later told Turkey’s state broadcaster TRT Haber that embassy staff were “being evacuated from Iran”. An photo has shown an array of bullet holes on what appears to be the front door to the embassy. Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev said on Twitter that the attack was an act of “terrorism”. He tweeted: “We demand that this terrorist act be swiftly investigated and the terrorists punished. Terror against diplomatic missions is unacceptable!” Iranian state media said: “President Ebrahim Raisi immediately ordered a intensive inquiry into the case and expressed his condolences to the Azerbaijani government and nation and to the family of the dead diplomat.” Protests have erupted in capital of Azerbaijan, Baku, and the foreign ministry has summoned the Iranian ambassador to “demand justice”. Relations between Azerbaijan and Iran have traditionally been sour, as Azerbaijan is a close ally of Iran’s historical rival Turkey. ReutersA man wrestled the rifle away from the attacker[/caption] ReutersThe head of security was killed in the brutal attack[/caption] GettyBullet holes were left on the doors to the embassy[/caption] GettyThe car crashed into another before the gunman entered the building[/caption]